Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 13:28:24 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: tcg@ime.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports suggestion Message-ID: <199607061328.NAA01019@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <31DDEA94.2B74@ime.net> (message from Gary Chrysler on Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:24:52 -0400)
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> Something I find very very annoying as a Newbie. > pkg_add a package, It drops ya right back to the prompt without > a clue on what to do next! Yep, this is "the Unix way" - you only get a message if the user needs to be informed about something unusual (a program working correctly is not regarded as unusual under Unix :-) > How about requiring a small message displayed with at least > "see man xxxxx for further details" or "See pkg_info <package>" "man xxxxx" is a standard Unix-ism for finding out how to use something; Unix programs generally assume that the user knows how to use Unix :-) If the package has some information in a different place, then I would certainly agree that there should be a message to that effect, eg "Sample configuration files for the gronkleblaster are in the /usr/local/share/gronkleblaster directory. These need to be customised for your site before attempting to run the gronkleblaster." The "See pkg_info" information should really go in the Handbook entry on packages (has anyone got round to writing one yet?) as it's the same for all packages. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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